Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 28th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
With three-quarters of a century of history behind them, the 40 surviving Broadway theaters – many built as lavish headquarters for Broadway’s great impresarios, who spared no expense in their decor -.stand as stunning works of art in themselves, as well as monuments to the lively history of American theater.
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Lecture covering the great skyscrapers of architects Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Ralph Walker, then tracing the adaptation of this “skyscraper style” through apartment buildings on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse, airport terminals at LaGuardia, the Central Park West residential skyline, automated midtown parking garages, diners, hotels, department stores, banks and theaters.
This walk through the east side of Midtown South includes an unusual collection of buildings, each different from the next: Ely Jacques Kahn’s most impressive office building, a modernist hotel by Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; a work by Edgar Brandt, the great French iron master; the iconic Empire State Building; and an incomplete attempt by Metropolitan Life to capture the Empire State Building’s “world’s tallest” title.
A pleasant stroll along Central Park West, for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We visit the great twin-towered skyscraper-apartment buildings — the Century, the Majestic, and the Eldorado — and other multi-colored jazz-age fantasies of high living overlooking the Park.